FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won't create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. Find out how to leverage these free tools to increase your blog traffic.

1. 7 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic with
FeedBurner
FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other
fun stuff. It won't create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself
snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium
options for the serious feed publisher, too.
People ask me all the time if I suggest that they use FeedBurner’s plethora of free feed
enhancement tools. I have always answered a resounding “Yes!” – But lately FeedBurner
has moved itself to a whole new level.
Did I mention most of these tools are free, and can help increase the traffic you get to your
blog, by using your feed? Don’t believe me – go to http://www.feedburner.com and see for
yourself. Tell ‘em Tinu sent you.
They have no idea who I am but it’ll be fun, I promise.
So enough with the warm-up already, and let’s start talking about some of these incredible
features.
Increasing Your Blog Traffic with FeedBurner
Blog Traffic Increaser # 1- Give others permission - or shake the no-no finger with the
Creative Commons option, found under the Publicize tab in your FeedBurner dashboard.
It will pop in the logo if you like, and explain what permissions others have to use your
feed. Being clear about what permissions others have to use your feed will encourage them
to display your headlines on their site – or let them know that they must link to you to cite
your views.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 2- Turn your feed into a newsletter with Feedblitz or Squeet under
Publicize/Email Subscriptions.
This turns your feed into a newsletter. It even gives you a subscribe form for your site. Now
you now have a(nother) ezine option to go with your blog without any extra work.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 3- Use the Browser-Friendly version, combined with FeedFlare to
explain what an RSS Feed is.
First on the Optimize tab, the Browser-Friendly version turns your RSS feed into a web
page, so that when new people click on your feed without knowing what it is, they’ll find out
how to use it. All you do is link to the FeedBurner version of your feed, instead of your
default feed address. FeedBurner will even help you with this.
But before we talk about that, here’s an extra tip: under the FeedFlare option on the
Optimize tab, you’ll find the Personal Flare section. If you click one of the links given, you
will see one called “Get Email Updates”. Once you have the Email Subscription option
enabled, you can enable that link in your feed to provide the option to subscribe to your

2. updates via email.
We'll come back to FeedFlare later.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 4- Make your feed compatible with all feed subscription services
with SmartFeed.
Maybe you have an Atom feed in a world that uses RSS more often. Perhaps the tool you’re
using utilizes an older version of RSS, and you’re just getting around to turning on your
feed, so don’t want to switch. If you look on the Optimize tab in FeedBurner, you’ll find a
tool that will convert your feed on the fly to any version the end user’s tool is asking for.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 5- Import pictures and links with Photo Splicer and Link Splicer
Under Optimize, look for these two options to help you jazz up your feed with your
suggestions from Furl, del.icio.us, Digg, Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0 or Bloglines. The Photosplicer
will also let you drop images into your feed using Flickr, BuzzNet or Webshots.
The more of a resource your feed is, the more your subscribers will want to use it. I find
that reminding my feed users that they’ll get even more treats than when they visit the blog
gets more of them to subscribe – which also brings them back to my blog more often.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 6 - Get your audience to help send you even more traffic with
FeedFlare.
Within the Optimize section, you’ll find one of the top three innovations from FeedBurner, as
far as I’m concerned. If you’ve ever been to a blog that has options that make it easy to
add a post to your del.icio.us, Digg or Technorati page, then you were probably green with
envy, as I was, if you didn’t have the time or the technical expertise to add those fabulous
hacks to your site.
Well I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to find the days in your schedule to reverse
engineer all those little tweaks, nor do you need to become a techie if you have no idea
what all that HTML code in your blog’s template does.
Using FeedFlare, you can now do all of these things yourself for your feed without touching
a line of code.
The exciting thing about this is that you can get your visitors to help you spread the word
about your blog.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 7 - Notify all RSS and Blog tracking services automatically with
PingShot.
Another one of the Optimize tools will free up your time by pinging all the top blog
notification sites when you update, by following your feed. If you feel that all the pings slow
your blog posting time down, or your blog won’t allow you to customize what services get
pinged, this is a lifesaver.
There are several dozen more ways to increase your traffic with FeedBurner, not to mention
all the little tricks you can use to maximize the traffic FeedBurner can generate, analyze or
optimize for you. You’ve got to hustle on over to FeedBurner to use these (mostly) free feed
tools before you can enjoy their benefits, and there’s no time like the present.

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ways to get more visitors to your web site. If you want better search engine
results, more visitors and return traffic she invites you to take a free
eCourse on business blogging at http://www.freetraffictip.com/blogtraffic/ today!